WHO Aid Warehouse Destroyed in Dnipro Strike, Leaving Ukraine’s Front‑Line Hospitals Short of Lifesaving Supplies
A Russian attack has destroyed a World Health Organization humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro that stored medicines and supplies for Ukrainian hospitals near the front, the WHO’s director said. Staff managed to evacuate nearly half the stock just before the strike, but the loss still strips badly needed equipment from doctors treating war‑wounded civilians and soldiers across the east.
When missiles hit an energy plant or a bridge, the damage is immediately visible. When they destroy a humanitarian warehouse, the damage ripples through operating rooms and field clinics hundreds of kilometers away. In Dnipro, that is now the reality facing Ukraine’s medical workers after a Russian strike wiped out a World Health Organization storage facility stocked with medicines for hospitals on the front line. The attack on the WHO warehouse in the central Ukrainian city was disclosed by the organization’s director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said the facility had housed medical supplies intended for hospitals close to combat zones. According to his account, staff at the warehouse managed to…
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